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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

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On wings of wind came flying all abroad.

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The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

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Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

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Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

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I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.

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Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

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Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

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How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

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To dazzle let the vain design, To raise the thought and touch the heart, be thine!

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Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

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Mark what unvary'd laws preserve each state, Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.

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The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.

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Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

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Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

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